by Lucy Sullivan A Christmas television program several years back was a documentary of events on Christmas Eve 1944, the last Christmas of World War II. It recounted, among other stories, the bombing of a small village in northern Germany that, until then, had been almost untouched by the war. The story was told by…
by Lucy Sullivan It was with a feeling of relief that I read in Terri Kelleher’s article (News Weekly, August 10, 2019) that the United States, of all the apparently unlikely places, is making a move to control the untrammelled manufacture of “rights” of the last few decades in which only to lay claim to…
PRIMAL SCREAMS: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics by Mary Eberstadt Templeton Found Press, Pennsylvania Hardcover: 192 pages Price: AUD$41.99 Reviewed by Lucy Sullivan “Anyone who has ever heard a coyote in the desert, separated at night from its pack, knows the sound. The otherwise unexplained hysteria of today’s identity politics is nothing more,…
We have seen enough of the results of the 50-year assault on marriage to be sure that certain behavioural patterns, though “expressed in custom and reinforced by ritual”, are hard-wired and are for our good: that is, marriage works, especially for children. Lucy Sullivan writes. Part Two of two parts Marriage, family, generations are social patterns analogous …
